Trolls never die they just fade away.
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It is my turn to fade off into the night. I am moving to a place where the interwebs will not be available. It has been fun hounding everyone on the boards, alot of you are pretty cool dudes/dudettes while some of you are just tards but thats ok the world needs tards too.
One day I will be back but until then enjoy this
The dichotomy present between Rationalism and Empiricism or of the main doctrines of Transcendence and Immanence within each respective intellectual conviction took hold in Europe through the Medieval Movement of Scholasticism. The learning tradition of Scholasticism maintained that only through external observations or through the senses in order to take in the natural order of things through external sensory stimuli was the path to discovering endless possibilities and of attaining eternal truth. Scholasticism took a dialectical approach to in order to answer questions or to solve any contradictions. (It is interesting to note that the Hegelian Dialectic of thesis, antithesis and synthesis would be based on the Scholastic learning tradition)
The Scholastic Method utilized two factors in order to elimiate any form of contradiciton: through philological reasoning by stating that the meaning of certain words was ambiguous and through a certain logical analysis in which the definition of certain words was subjective and individualistic as pertaining differently to a whole host of individuals. Out of Scholasticism arose the philosophical tradition of Empiricism. In tension and in opposition to Empiricism was the philosophical tradition of Rationalism that was developed by Plato. In Rationalism, only through innate and inward contemplation, observation and introspection could the individual attain immortal and divine truth. It was in the Neo-Platonic tradition that everything in existence was a preconceived thought that predated the existence of man and civil society with the result that man had to rediscover the truth of the natural world through self-reliance and self-sufficiency. In addition, the concept of immanence is of the divine properties of everything in existence; all objects and individuals in existence are imbued with a divine spirit. The concept of transcendence maintained that only through a life of virtue (see Thucydidean arête and Machiavellian virtue) that an individual could reach beyond the mortal plane and ascend into divine grace. Such a dichotomy that arose out of Greco-Roman times created a tension between the two opposing poles of philosophical consolidation that reached high peaks of conflict during the Scientific Revolution and the Period of Enlightenment.
